Sean Michael Kerner

Riverbed Technology is selling its SteelApp virtual Application Delivery Controller (ADC) business to Brocade. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Once the deal is approved, existing Riverbed SteelApp development and field staff will join Brocade. Sources tell Enterprise Networking Planet that Brocade has not yet determined whether the SteelApp brand name will […]

Cisco is set to expand its security services in 2015 with the acquisition of privately-held security firm Neohapsis. Cisco announced its intention to acquire Neohapsis today, in a deal that is set to close in the second quarter of Cisco’s fiscal 2015 year. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Neohapsis offers […]

The Open Compute Platform launched its networking effort in 2013 in a bid to disrupt the business model of big networking vendors. One of those big vendors is Juniper Networks. Today, in a surprising move, Juniper announced that it is embracing the Open Compute Platform with its own open hardware switch, the OCX 1100. The […]

For most of the history of networking, bandwidth and data transmission speeds have steadily trended upwards, from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps, then up to 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps. At the top end, 100 Gbps for carrier transport is now increasingly the norm. Yet despite that upward trajectory of bandwidth standards, in 2014, for […]

Juniper Networks has completed the sale of its Junos Pulse technology to Siris Capital. The deal was first announced back in July and is valued at $250 million. Siris Capital is not wasting any time deciding what to do with Junos Pulse technology, today announcing the formation of a new company called Pulse Secure. The […]

At the heart of all modern network communications is the protocol known as TCP. TCP is now set to be expanded with a set of extensions known as multipath TCP. The promise and the potential dangers of multipath TCP were outlined by a pair of researchers from Neohapsis at the Black Hat security conference in […]

Copper wires aren’t exactly the fastest form of connectivity for service providers, but the challenge is the simple fact that copper is widely deployed. In an announcement made today in Paris, France, Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs claimed that it has reached a new record speed of 10 Gigabits per second over plain old copper telephone wires. […]

HP today announced the 5400R zl2 switch series, providing an evolutionary expansion to the company’s existing 5400 switch portfolio. There are two new HP 5400R zl2 switches, with the 5406R zl2 providing six open module slots and supporting up to 48 x 10GbE ports or 1444 10/100/1000 Mbps ports. The HP 5412R zl2 switch provides […]

Work is now ongoing in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on a new protocol known as Geneve: Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation protocol. Geneve could one day serve as a superset of capabilities that are today provided by VXLAN and NVGRE. One of the leading contributors to the Geneve effort is VMware, which is seeking to […]

For some, SDN is just a buzzword. For others, like Facebook, SDN is a day-to-day reality that’s already delivering benefits. In a Cumulus Networks-sponsored webcast SDN panel on March 21, Najam Ahmad, Facebook’s director of technical operations, explained why the social networking website has embraced the open SDN model. Ahmad said that when it comes to […]

Amidst the myriad consumer gadgets, wearables and curved Ultra-HD TVs emerging from the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, the IEEE announced a major technical innovation that will quite literally make the wireless world a faster place. The IEEE has now formally approved the 802.11ac -2013 update which boasts as much […]

Juniper Networks is acquiring privately-held WANDL, Inc. for $60 million. WANDL (Wide Area Network Design Laboratory) has a portfolio of network design and traffic engineering software solutions. Among WANDL’s offerings, its IP/MPLSView solution includes design and planning, management and monitoring, and service creation and provisioning components. WANDL’s other solutions include the Network Planning and Analysis […]